hello!

This is for use with PHP but the regex will be the same as perl.

Basically the REQUEST_URI will contain a key-value pair like... query=THESUBMITTEDQUERY

which could turn up straight after the ?query=THESUBMITTEDQUERY or half way through like ?name=fred&query=THESUBMITTEDQUERY&hello=world

So what I want to do is replace the "query=THESUBMITTEDQUERY" with query=$variable no matter where it sits in that sting.

$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$url = preg_replace('/??????????/', "query=$variable", $url);

Can anyone help me with the right code to go in ?????????? to do that?

Thanks,

Regan

Hi,

Mmm.. I tihnk your better option, would be to "loop" through the passed in paramaters, and then edit accordingly.

For example (I've done it in perl, as I'm afraid I don't know PHP very well ATM, as I havn't used it in years <G>)


Sorry its in Perl - but I'm pretty busy today, so don't have time to check into the PHP formatting you would need. Hopefully this will help a bit though :)

BTW, I'm gonna move this post to the "Internet Technologies" forum, as its more suited there =)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Awesome that worked great!

One more for you if you don't mind!?

This bit of code is out of the linksql PHP code but I need to alter it because it doesn't quite work right. I'm trying to strip out 2 different keys and their values (nh and mh) from the REQUEST_URI, and be left with $root_url. Those tags could sit anywhere in the query string ie.

Scriptname.php?someting=value&something=value&mh=4&nh=25&something=value
Scriptname.php?mh=4&nh=25

This is the existing code...

$root_url = preg_replace('/([;&?]?)(?:nh|mh)=(\d+)/e', "('\\1' == '?') ? '?' : ''", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );

Later in my script I then add those vars back into the url with different numbers later by doing...

$root_url&mh=1&nh=3

With the code above, if a script is called with a ? on the end like Script.php? it works fine. But if I leave off the ? then it creates an invalid url.

ie. Script.php&mh=1&nh=3 (missing the ?)

Any ideas how to solve this one?

Thanks

Regan